“It’s always great to be here with a guy that’s on your team, so you can always talk to him, ask for advice or whatever,” Favors said. “Gordon, he’s a great guy. Every time I got a chance, I’d look over to see how he did in the scrimmage — and he did good.” …

“It puts a smile on your face, for sure. Knowing that we’re going to be — next year — taking a much bigger role (in Utah), it puts another smile on my face,” Hayward said. “I’m proud that he’s here next to me.”

One more Hayward quote on Favors:

“Derrick is still developing his game down low. What he’s best at in my opinion is setting screens, rolling, finding the open area, and just making power finishes. He can do that with anybody in the NBA,” Hayward said. “He’s gotten tremendously better since he came into the league with his post game, and he’s only going to get better doing that.” (DN)

Dear basketball gods,
Please give Tyrone Corbin wisdom and stop his nonsense of using Favors as a one-on-one iso player.
I pray this in the name of Stockton, Malone and Sloan,
Amen.

Three. No updates on or from Enes Kanter, but his younger brother, Kerem (6-7, 230), is part of the Turkish national team that took gold at the U18 European Championships three days ago. Kerem’s best game came in Turkey’s semi-final game against Spain, with 22 points (9-14), 8 rebounds (7 offensive), 1 steal and 5 fouls drawn in 27 minutes.

Also, he completely looks like a mini-Enes out there (via FIBA Europe):

Four. Alec Burks recently celebrated his 22nd birthday at da club. No cover, all you can drink, and “plan white ts” prohibited. At least they got his name right, which is more than we can say for Jazz brass lol.

I don’t know, I kind of like knowing that maybe the Jazz performed pretty good given the circumstances that apparently were terrible at point guard. It also gives me hope that maybe this year’s point guards can at least be as good as last year’s.

The point guards were all bad, especially last season. But while those guys were here, Locke was always saying how great they were. Now that they’re gone, he disses on them with no mercy. That’s the point.